Designing Social Emotional Learning Experiences for Refugee Students PowerUp
In this PowerUp participants will learn about specific considerations for implementing social and emotional learning (SEL) practices in refugee*-serving classrooms and schools. Participants will explore classrooms and schools that have successfully integrated SEL strategies or programs to foster well-being and belonging for refugee students and families and will connect these examples of best practices to their own education context.
| Designed For | Teachers and educators |
| Topics | Classroom management; K-12; Learner-centered education; Pedagogy; Refugee education; Wellness |
| Platform | Bluebird |
| Source | Childhood Education International |
Learning outcomes
- Understand why an assets-based approach is important for SEL implementation in refugee education.
- Consider how cultural and linguistic differences, stress, trauma, and isolation can impact a refugee student’s social and emotional development.
- Analyze their SEL strategies-in-use compared with examples of classroom and school-wide SEL practices that successfully support and uplift refugee students and families.


